The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 86
‘No,’ said Halvor, ‘I will not go up there till early to-morrow morning; let me stay here to-night.
Who acts: Halvor, I, me · What happens: say, not go up, let, stay · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, I, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 early | case |
| 16 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 morning | compound |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 early | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 stay | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Halvor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go up | future | I | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | me not said here | here | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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